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continue to plague various online services and websites, with their newest victim being ProtonMail. Due to the unusual series of attacks on the company, its email services went down for several minutes on multiple occasions. In total, the company’s email service on June 2 was down for several hours, and they claim that this has happened because of the more complex nature of the attack.

DDoS attacks are no stranger to ProtonMail, but the email service is usually more than capable of dealing with them. This time, however, the attack was more complex, which has caused additional difficulties for the company’s protection service.

Our network has been under sustained attack this morning. We are working with our upstream providers to mitigate the attack. Emails are delayed but will not be lost. Thank you for your patience.

According to their statement on Reddit, the longest of the multiple outages that the company’s service has faced has been 10 minutes long.

ProtonMail has experienced another
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DDoS attack back in 2015 when it was still only a startup. Back then, dealing with such a threat was a new experience for the firm, and ProtonMail believed that paying the ransom will satisfy the hackers. Doing so, however, caused a lot of criticism from the
security
industry, but has taught ProtonMail a valuable lesson – it needed to work on its defenses.

Ever since this first attack, the company was quite successful in deflecting them, despite the fact that new ones came almost on a daily basis. The newest attack, however, seems to have been different, and the company was taken by surprise. Bart Butler, ProtonMail’s CTO, even posted a tweet in which he stated that the company was a little slow to deal with the attack, which indicates that he is not exactly pleased with how the things went down.